There is no better feeling than spending a warm summer evening in stadium seats at a baseball game, except, I’ll argue, when a foul fly ball lands in your glove. I have waited for this for thirty four years! And all this, with a belly full of Moe’s BBQ. This month, Moe’s opened a new […]
I am of the faith that one can never cook salmon burgers too frequently. We celebrated the Norwegian festival of Syttende Mai last week, and given KP’s Norse heritage, he manned the grill with gifts from Jarlsberg just in time for grilling season! Wasabi Salmon Burgers Adapted from Helen Martinson’s Cooking Skinny 2 TB […]
We returned to Central City BBQ last night to watch five barbeque pit masters and their teams face off in the Culinary Fight Club, the winner decided both by a team of judges and by the tasters challenge. It stormed all afternoon, but the rain lifted so there remained a heavy steam in the air—all […]
If you can’t beat the heat, join it! Been trying to get some grilling on for the holiday, like everyone else. In New Orleans, it is actually an important chore during hurricane season to clear through all the major meat products taking up residence in the freezer, just in case we need to evacuate and […]
To be a New Orleanian requires one to harbor a certain philosophical slant. More than once I’ve entertained discussions with non-New Orleanian folk that became arguments at a predictable impasse: why choose to live somewhere that is near-certain to flood again? There will always be another Katrina, they say, it doesn’t make any sense; why […]
For those of you who have come to believe this is a health food blog, with this post, I burst your bubble with a slick sud of saturated fat. As a flexatarian, I readily celebrate calls for exception, calls for wild food abandon, when such calls satisfy certain theology and geometry. Graduating from medical school, […]
Happiness is the company of old friends in new places—the birth of new traditions— eight pairs of high heels, flamingos and cupcake ATMs. Viva Las Vegas for a collective 30th birthday. Moments like these are perfect motivation for aging. To bright lights behind us and even brighter light ahead. Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Barbecue Sauce […]